Abstract [en]

As part of my program Nät- och kommunikationsteknik (Network and Communications Technology) at Umeå University I took a course called Webbutveckling (Web Development) where we acquainted ourselves with WordPress (WP) — which is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS) for managing content on websites. WP is in my opinion very slow, needlessly complicated to use and the resulting webpages had bloated and substandard code — therefore I wanted to see what and if anything is gained or lost by making developing a custom CMS solution for a website.

I created a website for Projektledargruppen i Umeå AB (PLG) which then served as a foundation for integration with my custom-made CMS-functions. I then tested this website and WP-websites with various tools to measure and compare speed, size, and quality of code.

The result was a CMS and website which is easier to understand, maintain, and that performs better in terms of speed and quality — but with a higher entry threshold.